Disclaimer: If I owned Gundam Wing, I wouldn't be making fan fiction, now would I?

AN: Thank you! I got reviews! And good ones for my first story! You all really brightened up my day. Thank you lots and lots to:

White Witch: Yeah, you're right, it is rushed but this first story's to help me learn how to slow things down. And I like 5xM better than 5xS but they both work. Also thanks for the spelling help.

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Rei: Thanks so much! I'm glad you like my story. Hope you like this one too.

Oh, and that just reminded me, if you want me to e-mail you when I update, just say so in your review.

Oh, and about the last chapter, I kind of got confused writing it and I said "until next year, when she's old enough to live by herself." When she's only actually 15. Heh, heh, heh, let's just make it so kids are allowed to live by themselves at age 16 ok? This IS AU, so I can change it to whatever. :P

Summary: ***AU*** The GW girls are just a few misjudged, high school girls. The GW boys are a group of mostly anti-social guys. When the boys are hired to Hilde's dad's construction business, they learn to respect the girls. One day chaos erupts and the girls take it upon themselves to help, but the guys follow to help them, and learn just how strong both groups really are, after all, there's always more than what meets the eye.  HYxRP   DMxHS   TBxMU   WCxMC   QWxDC    slight; ZMxLN   TKxLU
Rated PG13 for language, but I think I over rated, hey, it's my first time!

'thoughts'

"speaking"

More Than Meets The Eye

Chapter 2

"Assumption confirmed."

Relena was getting rather tired of hearing the story over and over again. She returned to her partner for the day, she hoped, and got ready to alert the other girls of Hilde's doing. She hated the process, especially when she wasn't assigned to heavy lifting.

Objective number one; do something clumsy and noticeable.

She caught the eye of a familiar passerby and turned her head to say hi, and in the process, running into a caution sign. A loud sound erupted from the collision, catching everybody's attention, especially Heero and the girls.

Objective number two; talk a lot, making it look casual.

She began to swear infinitely and quietly at the sign, making sure the girl's could see her lips moving. This indicated that someone was telling the stories of their pasts. A glare meant that the newcomers couldn't be trusted.

Objective number three; indicate 'Mother Goose'.

Picking herself up, Relena pretended to lose track of where she was going, and started to head back to Hilde. Then she shook her head and looked around before going back towards Heero. Shaking her head also meant that they did not have to retell the stories; three quick glances from Hilde told her that one. Blinking meant they had to retell it.

The girls went back to work, those that were working in the first place anyway.

When Relena got back to Heero, she noticed he was looking at her funny. She felt absolutely ridiculous.

"That hurt?"

"No, not really."

"You sure? You got a mark on your head."

"Quiet and get in the truck, we have to pick up materials."

"Hn."

*~*~*~*~*

The ride was unnerving for Relena. Heero just kept on glancing at her body, frowning, then looked out the window with a face of deep concentration. Relena tried to ignore it, but after they had loaded up the truck and were driving back, it was getting annoying.

"The hell you looking at? You're sizing my body up as if you're expecting a quickie on the road or something."

"Hn, none of your business."

Relena's knuckles tightened on the steering wheel. 'He's got a lot of nerve, I'll give him that.'

"When it has something has to do with me or my body, it's my business."

Heero debated with himself on whether or not to ask her, but soon, curiosity got the better of him.

"Why do you girls work on the construction site, anyways? Aren't you supposed to be at home doing chores around the house or something?"

'Yep, a whole lot of nerves.'

"Great, I get stuck with a stereotyping sexist. I'll have you know I've been through more in life then you have preppy. Just ask Duo, he'll know."

Heero frowned at 'preppy' and 'Duo'. 'Preppy? Where'd she get that from? And what does Duo have to do with her past?'

"Hn, but how did Jack accept you?"

Relena glanced at him. She shrugged and began to tell him. It wasn't like she was the one telling him her life story.

"Well, I was actually poor, and worked a lot to help support my family. When my father got promoted repeatedly, I was restless. Then I met Hilde and the others. I found out Hilde's dad worked here, and that she wished she could too, but she was afraid he wouldn't let her because of all the teenaged boys here. I told her that I'd go and ask with her if she wanted, and say I'd make sure the guys didn't get too close, kind of like a bodyguard. The others, not wanting to be outdone, came too, and we've all worked on this site now."

"Hn."

Relena frowned, she always had a sixth sense with people, and that wasn't all on his mind.

"Is there something else you want to know?" She eyed him as she talked.

"Yeah, what was with banging into that sign back there? I know you aren't a clumsy girl."

Now it was getting interesting, but a little freaky.

"Oh? And how would you know?"

"It's not hard to keep tabs on you girls, you're always being gossiped about at school."

"About what?" Relena was interested about what people thought of her. She completely missed what he had said about 'keeping tabs' on her.

Heero sighed; his tolerance wasn't going to last to long after this. "How you all are perfect at everything and have perfect everything. They also say you're a tease, the guys anyway."

Relena blinked in total confusion. Tease?

As if reading her mind, Heero continued. "As I said, perfect everything, even body. A lot of the guys lust after you and the others, but you all don't even notice. Now answer my question, what was with that performance?"

"Code, it's for me and the girls to know what it said though."

Relena couldn't think straight, it was lucky that she had done this route so many times. Heero's words hung in her head. 'Lust? Guys? Perfect?' Most girls would be flattered, but this was different, she didn't want a boyfriend!

She glared at Heero, her new bearer of bad news.

*~*~*~*~*

Midii laughed freely at Trowa, who was trying his best to balance the lumber. She was a natural at balancing, and she heard Trowa was too, just not when you threw the lumber at him when he wasn't looking.

Suddenly, a small yelp came from his direction as Trowa both dropped the logs and jumped out of the way.

"What was it?"

Trowa frowned. "Stupid bug bit me." Midii grinned as she heard those words.

"Hey Relena," She yelled up to the front of the truck. Relena looked at her, her expression questioning. "Trowa just got bit by a bug, what in the world should he do?" Midii asked with fake worry.

Relena's face brightened up at the words of her favourite 'ritual'. "I don't know Midii, but I'll ask Meiran." Heero looked at her from the other side of the truck. "Hey Meiran, Trowa was bitten by a bug, what should he do?"

Meiran looked away from Wufei and grinned. "I don't know but I'm going to ask Dorothy." Trowa looked at the three girl's faces, and decided that he was going to regret this. "Dorothy, Trowa was bitten, you know what to do?"

Dorothy's irritated face turned into a big grin. "Nope, but I'll ask Hilde, ok?" Hilde always knew a great reply to something like this, "Hilde, Trowa got bit by a bug, what should we do?"

Midii awaited her friend's answer; she always made up the best.

Then, she heard Duo's loud voice boom, "Bite it back!" (AN: Actually, my dad told me to do that last time I was bit.)

Midii fell over laughing at the usually stoic Trowa with a dumbstruck face. Jack appeared with the camera he always had handy with him in case this happened. A flash blinded Trowa before he had a chance to do something about it.

"Got another one for the collection! My, looks like Hilde found another good use for that loudmouth."

Relena came into view with a grin still on her face. "So, Jack, how many we got now?"

"About seventeen." They all were still grinning a bit when they got back to unloading the truck, with the exception of Heero and Trowa. They worked beside each other helping pick up Trowa's mess.

"Glad it wasn't me."

"Shut up."

*~*~*~*~*

"Looks like that's another one to add to our collection." Meiran said. Wufei looked at her in surprise. "We do that to anyone who happens to do something we can comment on. 'Bite it back' is our usual response to bug bites, but sometimes Hilde can think of a better one."

"Just like a bunch of women to find pleasure in a person's expense." Wufei muttered.

"Oh just lighten up, Wuf- Wuf, you take things too seriously." Meiran went back to work with a shrug, turning her back on an indignant Wufei.

"Woman, you are not allowed to call me Woof- Woof." Just then, Meiran dropped whatever she was holding and used her hands to stifle laughter. "What is so funny woman?"

Between laughs, Meiran managed to make out, "Say it again. That was so funny!"

"What? Woof- Woof?" Meiran burst out laughing again.

"Your accent, y- you sound like a- a DOG!" Meiran gripped her stomach from laughing so hard.

Wufei let out an indignant huff of anger, and turned away from the laughing Meiran.

 "Okay, okay," She began to calm down. "I won't call you Wuf- Wuf, from now on, I'll call you… Chihuahua!" She began to laugh yet again, this was getting to be hysterical, at least to Meiran.

"Injustice!" With that, Wufei picked up some lumber and marched off. Meiran soon managed to calm herself down and wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Man, I wonder what crawled up his ass and died."

*~*~*~*~*

Dorothy watched Meiran and Wufei fight from her perch on the building's skeleton. She sighed and envied the fun her friend was having, so unlike her situation.

"Dorothy! I'm going to see if Jack needs any help with the accounting."

"Oh no you don't! He's going to kill me if I let you wonder off by yourself and I'm too busy to baby sit you."

"What can I do then?"

"I need a few wrenches and nuts and bolts."

"Get someone else to help you!"

"You're a big boy, you can do something simple."

"I'm better at accounting and planning."

"Fine, be off, but get someone to escort you, there's a lot of ditches around here you know." Dorothy sighed and jumped down to collect a few supplies before making her way up again.

She glared at the blonde Arabian as he made his way to the "office", in search of Jack. Actually, the office was a tent made to keep the wind from any light objects, which were few. The girls had already shown the tent to the boys earlier, but Dorothy doubted that Quatre knew of the small yet dangerous holes the crew had already dug for construction.

Turning her attention away from the little blonde, Dorothy returned to bolting in the frames of the one fraction of the construction building. Funny how Hilde's Dad liked to work; one fraction of the building had already started with filling the frames with wood and instillation, while a large fraction was still being plotted out. He had always liked doing things one step at a time.

She sighed at her own irritation with Quatre. The boy barely knew what half the tools she had beside her were! What did he expect to do on a construction site? Dorothy could not believe the boy's incompetence! Coming to a construction site, and barely know what a wrench is! She tried to control her frustration, but she was going to get tired of climbing up and down the structure, and she couldn't balance anything on the bars of the skeleton of structure.

*~*~*~*~*

Quitting time couldn't come soon enough for some of the girls. They met outside the gates as usual for a little chat before home.

"So Hilde, did you really trust Maxwell so easily?" Meiran questioned her friend. Usually they didn't explain things until they really got to know them.

"Yeah, he's not gonna be screwing up anytime soon." Hilde was sure as ever of Duo and the other boys.

"I suppose you've always had a sixth sense for people, Hilde, but even I have to question this one." Midii was worried; she didn't want the whole town knowing her life, as far as she was concerned, nobody really needed to.

"You got the right to be, but I'm not really interested in that. How were you're partners?"

Dorothy was the first to complain. "Winner? I only saw him for about forty-five minutes, then He was off planning with Jack. Guy has no idea what tools are which."

Hilde laughed and a couple of others gave a small smirk.

"Well," Midii suppressed a laugh, "You all know what happened today to Trowa."

"I would've paid to be there right then." The other's all agreed with Meiran.

"Wufei was entertainment alright! He's so uptight it's impossible not to make fun of him!"

"Yeah, I know, I heard you two." Dorothy grinned.

The others had made Relena want to share her day too. "Heero's okay, I guess. He's pretty anti-social, but then again, I didn't really want someone who talked too much, but it's kind of uncomfortable. Oh and I learned some things from him too." Relena recounted her conversation with Heero to the others.

"Well, remind me to wear baggier clothes to school." Hilde announced. Suddenly she became very conscious of all the men filing out of the gates behind her.

"Hilde, we have uniforms." Relena reminded the small black-haired.

"Quiet Lena, you're not making me feel very secure."

"So Hilde, how was Duo?" Meiran was curious.

"Actually, he was pretty sweet about everything. He didn't treat me too different, but never crossed the line." Hilde smiled. "Well, I guess I'll be seeing you tomorrow, okay? Bye."

And they left without another word.

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